Poverty lines in the Brasil Sem Miséria Plana review and proposed alternatives in poverty measurement according to the methodology of Sonia Rocha

Resumo

This paper criticizes the methodology of poverty measurement used by the Brazilian federal government in its Brasil Sem Miséria Program (PBSM). By means of a compilation and analysis of secondary data collected from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD), we conducted a comparison between this methodology and the one used by economist Sonia Rocha. Her methodology establishes poverty lines which are regionalized and indexed to the consumer basket values found in different regions of the country. The results of both methodologies are compared, showing that PBSM lines are incapable of detecting 12.9 million Brazilians living in poverty. In our conclusions, we present suggestions to improve the government’s poverty measurement methodology, i.e., the regionalization of poverty lines and that they become indexed to regional consumer basket prices.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2017

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE)

Fonte

Revista de Administração Pública

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.1590/0034-7612162786

Identificador

oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/65725

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Temas

Desenvolvimento Regional

Palavras-chave

povertymeasurementpoverty linemethodologyregionalizationpobrezamediciónlínea de pobrezametodologíaregionalizaciónmediçãolinha de pobrezaregionalização